The American Dissident
A Journal of Literature, Democracy & Dissidence

In the Samizdat Tradition of Writing against the Machine

Excerpts From the Editor's Manuscripts
The following are excerpts from the editor's published books and unpublished manuscripts.  Please contact the editor if interested in publishing any of the unpublished manuscripts and/or  purchasing copies of the published books.  Send email, letter and/or check to

todslone@yahoo.com
G. Tod Slone
1837 Main St.
Concord, MA 01742

1.  Oil of Vitriol.  Selected Poems.  Petroglyph Press.  2009.  60-page chapbook of highly critical poems. $10. 


2. Où c’qui faut pas/Where a Poet Ought Not.  2008. Gival Press. 170pp  bilingual French/English... both versions written by the editor.  $15. 

 

3. Transcendental Trinkets.  Unpublished.  Writing from and critical of Concord, Massachusetts.  This is a 170-page unpublished manuscript of "Open Letters to Henry David Thoreau," broadsides, poems, journal notes, essays, satirical cartoons and watercolors. 

 

4.  The Dissident Unpublished 735-page autobiographical novel.  Highly critical of poets, academics, and society in general.   

 

5.  Total Chaos:  Behind the Scenes of a National Blue-Ribbon High School.  2001.  People's Press.  315-page autobiographical novel.  $12. 

 

6.  Berthing Unpublished 160-page autobiographical novella of life onboard a US Navy destroyer. 
 

7.  Berthing.  Unpublished 60-page, three-act play. 

 

8.  Suburbanitica:  Journal of a Citizen Lost in Alienation in America.  Unpublished 300-page, autobiographical nonfiction novel critical of suburban life in Concord, Massachusetts. 

 

9.  Loser Whistleblower On The Unemployment Line.  Unpublished 300-page, autobiographical novel critical of America. 

 

10.  Year of the CitizenUnpublished 75-page, three-act play critical of a public college in Massachusetts. 
 

11.  Backseat ProfessorUnpublished 300-page, autobiographical novel critical of a private upstate New York college, written in 1991.   

 

12.  Essays in and of Futility 1,000 pages of essays (many published) critical of higher education, poetry, literature, and America in general. 
 

13.  Literary Cartoons.  1,000 highly caustic literary cartoons. 

 

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